Monday, 2 June 2014
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Monday, 28 April 2014
Reflected Refractions
Abstract.
A combination of reflective glass windows reflecting glass panels that are refracting light. I like how these huge panes of glass sit neatly and square on the sides of buildings, but they never seem to be completely flat, distorting lines into curves and other bendy shapes like a hall of mirrors.
A combination of reflective glass windows reflecting glass panels that are refracting light. I like how these huge panes of glass sit neatly and square on the sides of buildings, but they never seem to be completely flat, distorting lines into curves and other bendy shapes like a hall of mirrors.
Thursday, 17 April 2014
Worm's-Eye View of a Bird's-Eye View
Looking up at a couple of crows looking down. I also like how these birds are framed by the passing clouds into a dark strip of sky.
Wednesday, 2 April 2014
Leafy Tunnel
Well, it's not black & white but it does have people (a person).
Look at all that green! Shot with my 35mm f1.8 @ f5.6, with just a little bit of post to boost the contrast (particularly the greens) and darken a few of the shadows in the foreground to lead your eye into the background. I think I'll revisit this place when the leafy tunnel has regrown again.
Windows says the max f-stop of my 1.8 lens is 1.6. What?! Not that I'm excited for the added 0.2 or anything (it's a DX lens after all), I just think it's odd that the numbers don't exactly match.
Look at all that green! Shot with my 35mm f1.8 @ f5.6, with just a little bit of post to boost the contrast (particularly the greens) and darken a few of the shadows in the foreground to lead your eye into the background. I think I'll revisit this place when the leafy tunnel has regrown again.
Windows says the max f-stop of my 1.8 lens is 1.6. What?! Not that I'm excited for the added 0.2 or anything (it's a DX lens after all), I just think it's odd that the numbers don't exactly match.
Sunday, 30 March 2014
Between 2 Bridges
This is one of the first "proper" long exposures I took with my D5100 back in November last year.
Behind me was Albert Bridge and ahead of me was Battersea Bridge (hence the post title).
I attempted a whole bunch of other long exposures on the same night but they really didn't come out too well; I left the UV filter on the lens which made some lights flare all over the place, I left vibration control on which blurred the picture as the image drifted off slightly to one direction, and I forgot to set the ISO to the base level which made the images noisy and the exposure much shorter than I wanted. These initial trial and error phases helped me on the road to my later more successful long exposure attempts I posted previously. And, much like my other long exposures, I set my camera on a wall for lack of a tripod. This was a 30 second exposure taken at f22, basically the smallest aperture I could get away with at 18mm.
What I like most about this picture are the different colour gradients in the sky and on the water. There's still a sliver of sunlight over the horizon, so the night sky hasn't completely blacked out. The garish lighting on the Albert Bridge has lit up the brown Thames water in the foreground, fading to blue/black and interrupted by the multicoloured light sources reflecting in the background. I also managed to capture the flashing lights of a passing aeroplane, although it's a bit difficult to see on some monitors and at this resolution (and I don't feel like posting 16Mbit images).
I have taken some long exposure photos along the Thames with an actual tripod and they look pretty good but I'll save them for another day. I think I'll upload some street photos in my next post, I sure do miss posting those black & white goodies :P
Behind me was Albert Bridge and ahead of me was Battersea Bridge (hence the post title).
I attempted a whole bunch of other long exposures on the same night but they really didn't come out too well; I left the UV filter on the lens which made some lights flare all over the place, I left vibration control on which blurred the picture as the image drifted off slightly to one direction, and I forgot to set the ISO to the base level which made the images noisy and the exposure much shorter than I wanted. These initial trial and error phases helped me on the road to my later more successful long exposure attempts I posted previously. And, much like my other long exposures, I set my camera on a wall for lack of a tripod. This was a 30 second exposure taken at f22, basically the smallest aperture I could get away with at 18mm.
What I like most about this picture are the different colour gradients in the sky and on the water. There's still a sliver of sunlight over the horizon, so the night sky hasn't completely blacked out. The garish lighting on the Albert Bridge has lit up the brown Thames water in the foreground, fading to blue/black and interrupted by the multicoloured light sources reflecting in the background. I also managed to capture the flashing lights of a passing aeroplane, although it's a bit difficult to see on some monitors and at this resolution (and I don't feel like posting 16Mbit images).
I have taken some long exposure photos along the Thames with an actual tripod and they look pretty good but I'll save them for another day. I think I'll upload some street photos in my next post, I sure do miss posting those black & white goodies :P
Tuesday, 25 March 2014
Reflections
Looking up... or maybe down.
Taken on a clear but very cold December day. I saw that this fountain was full of old autumn leaves. The fountain was also switched off so the surface of the still water was like a mirror, reflecting the lightly clouded sky. The shadow that was cast by the fountain's figure and her podium cut through this mirror like some sort of keyhole and made the leaves in the bottom of the fountain much more visible. My eye was initially drawn to the stillness of the leaves under the water, but when I flipped the image vertically it looked like I had taken a double exposure of the fountain at eye level and some autumnal leaves.
Taken on a clear but very cold December day. I saw that this fountain was full of old autumn leaves. The fountain was also switched off so the surface of the still water was like a mirror, reflecting the lightly clouded sky. The shadow that was cast by the fountain's figure and her podium cut through this mirror like some sort of keyhole and made the leaves in the bottom of the fountain much more visible. My eye was initially drawn to the stillness of the leaves under the water, but when I flipped the image vertically it looked like I had taken a double exposure of the fountain at eye level and some autumnal leaves.
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